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Album Review: Sleep Thieves - Heart Waves

There's much to admire in 'Heart Waves', the debut album by Sleep Thieves. The songs are little catchy indie pop songs which never outstay their welcome. The best track for me is the single from last year 'City Lights' with an intro which actually sounds like city lights twinkling in the night. Other highlights include 'Hope is Dead' and 'Impersonator'.

I seen Sleep Thieves live last year and by a mile the best aspect of the band is Sorcha's vocals which really suits the catchy pop songs. While I'm not a big fan of electronic music there's very little on the album I didn't get. I think some tracks would have benefited from the inclusion of a real drum kit but that's no major criticism.

While I admire the album I still can't say I'm a massive fan of the genre. Based on the album Sleep Thieves are doing a great job in trying to turn me on to Electronic pop music!

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It's been in the news that 25 years ago Irish Summers got a bit more interesting with the arrival of Féile festivals. I was lucky enough to be a mid teen attender at Feile 1994 with great memories of dancing to Blur, the dangerous mosh pit of 'House of Pain' the rock and roll swooning of Primal Scream and perfect pop of Bjork.

There are a few funny clips from Feile on Youtube but we'll start with the line-ups!

The poster for the first Féile in 1990 was .....

In 1991 we had:

And in 1992 there was .....

There are currently no posters online for the Feiles of 1993 or the last one in Turles is 1994. Taken from Wikipedia here are a list of bands from each year: